Bloch v. Ribar’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.3d 673 · 1998
Citation profile
113 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 366 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Trudeau v. Federal Trade Commission (2006)
113 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Parratt v. Taylor · Hishon v. King & Spalding
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 366 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the plaintiff was engaged in a constitutionally protected activity; (2) that the defendant’s adverse action caused the plaintiff to suffer an injury that would likely chill a person of ordinary firmness from continuing to engage in that activity; and (3) that the adverse action was motivated at least in part as a response to the exercise of the plaintiffs constitutional rights.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if it is clear that no relief could be granted under any set of facts that could be proved consistent with the allegations.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] historie social stigma has attached to victims of sexual violence. In particular, a tradition of “blaming the victim” of sexual violence sets these victims apart from those of other violent crimes. Releasing the intimate details of rape will therefore not only dissect a particularly painful sexual experience, but often will subject a victim to criticism and scrutiny concerning her sexuality and personal choices regarding sex. Bloch v. Ribar, supra, pág. 685. Véase, además, RB. Edelman, Free Press v. Privacy: Haunted by the Ghost of Justice Black, 68 Tex. L. Rev. 1195 , 1208 esc. 69 (1990) (“Rape is an act of physical violence which by its very nature is an affront to privacy. It represents forcible exposure of aspects of oneself that are protected by conventions of limited access. These conventions are normally adhered to out of regard for well-being and respect for personal privacy”).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.